seer

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[ see-er for 1; seer for 2-4 ]
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noun
  1. a person who sees; observer.

  2. a person who prophesies future events; prophet: Industry seers predicted higher profits.

  1. a person endowed with profound moral and spiritual insight or knowledge; a wise person or sage who possesses intuitive powers.

  2. a person who is reputed to have special powers of divination, as a crystal gazer or palmist.

Origin of seer

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Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at see1, -er1

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Other definitions for seer (2 of 2)

seer2
[ seer, sair ]

noun
  1. ser.

Origin of seer

2
First recorded in 1610–20

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How to use seer in a sentence

  • Without exaggeration, he manages to suggest the intervening aerial medium between the seer and the thing seen.

    Historic Fredericksburg | John T. Goolrick
  • The Kaiser has those terrible haunted eyes that have marked the seer's presentment of him from quite an early stage of the war.

    Raemaekers' Cartoons | Louis Raemaekers
  • A seer is one who has seeing eyes which clearly note and comprehend what most people pass a hundred times nor care to see.

    Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. Parkman
  • A mysterious lucidity of mind results, which converts the student into the seer, and the poet into a prophet.

British Dictionary definitions for seer (1 of 2)

seer1

/ (sɪə) /


noun
  1. a person who can supposedly see into the future; prophet

  2. a person who professes supernatural powers

  1. a person who sees

Derived forms of seer

  • seeress, fem n

British Dictionary definitions for seer (2 of 2)

seer2

/ (sɪə) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of ser

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